39. “ILINDEN IN LJUBOJNO AND PRESPA”
The monograph “Ilinden in Ljubojno and Prespa” (2013),published by “Macedonian Spark” from Skopje and the Macedonian Society “Ljubojno” from Detroit, was printed in 2013, on 320 pages in Macedonian and English, authored by Slave Katin, and co-authored by Boško Rajchovski – Pelisterski from the USA. The work is dedicated to Ilinden and the Ilinden emigrant meetings in Ljubojno, as well as to other topics related to Ljubojno and ethnic Prespa. The reviewers of this work on Ljubojno and Prespa are: Prof. Dr. Petre Georgievski, Prof. Dr. Nikola Jankulovski and Dr. Petre Lubarovski.
The monograph “Ilinden in Ljubojno and Prespa” is a witness to the destinies of Ljubojno, Prespa, and Macedonia. The work expresses the strong love for the homeland, especially of those who left their ancestral home, but are connected by family or other ties to that beautiful, fighting, patriotic and significant part of ethnic Macedonia. Which is divided between three countries.
The monograph represents a significant contribution to the journalistic work. It is a mirror and testimony of the beautiful word and the discovery of the fate of the migrant region of Prespa.
Promotions and announcements:
For the first time, the monograph was presented to the audience at the Ilinden Emigrant Meetings in Ljubojno in 2013 by Prof. Dr. Petre Georgievski, Prof. Dr. Nikola Jankulovski and Prof. Dr. Vasil Gramatnikovski, which, among other things, was said to be a significant contribution to the journalistic work of the authors.
On October 13, 2013, the first promotion outside of Macedonia of the work “The Ljuban Ilinden Pilgrimage Meetings” was held at the Macedonian Orthodox Church “St. Mala Bogorodica” in Detroit. In the presence of a large number of Macedonians from Ljubojno, Prespa, Bitola, Tetovo and other parts of ethnic Macedonia, the work was presented to the attendees by the competent hierarch of the American-Canadian-Macedonian Diocese, the relevant hierarch Mr. Methodius.
On October 20, 2013, in the Macedonian Orthodox Church “St. Clement of Ohrid” in Toronto, a promotion of the monograph “Ilinden in Ljubojno and Prespa” was also held. This important work was promoted within the framework of the Literary Society “Braka Miladinovci” which is part of the church “St. Clement of Ohrid” in Toronto, whose promoter was the priest of the church, Prof. Ilija Donev.
At the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the “Ljubanski Ilindenski emigrant meetings”, in 2014, the monograph “Ilinden in Ljubojno and Prespa” was also promoted, which presents part of the history of ethnic Prespa, one of the beautiful and significant parts of Macedonia. The promoters were Dr. Vasil Gramatnikovski and Dr. Petre Lubarovski, who, in front of the present emigrants from Ljubojno, Prespa and from all over ethnic Macedonia, highlighted the facts about their emigration.
It is significant that sixteen (16) texts about ethnic Prespa were published in the web portal “Prespana”, from December 18 to May 19, 2015, (in Macedonian).
In the portal “Macedonian Nation”, in 2021, twenty-two (22) sequels to the monograph “Ilinden in Ljubojno and Prespa” were published, and a larger number were also published in “Macedonian Sun”. Also, twenty-two (22) sequels to this monograph were published in the portal “Maktel” from Sydney, Australia, as well as twenty-two (22) sequels in “Macedonian Nation” from Skopje. The same (22) sequels were also published in the portal “Macedonian Sun”, Skopje
40. “THE BALKANS AND MACEDONIA”
The publication “The Balkans and Macedonia”. (2014) by the late academician Antonije Škikljev – Dončo from Belgrade was published for the first time in Serbian under the title “The Balkans and Macedonia”. Then the same work by Antonije Škikljev – Dončo and Slave Nikolovski – Katin was translated into Macedonian and published by the publishing house “Makedonska Iskra”, Skopje, 2019, on 308 pages, translated by Risto Stefov from Toronto. These publications are part of the truth about the Balkans and Macedonia.
Let me emphasize that the book publishing house “Makedonska Iskra” was formed thanks to the democratic processes that occurred after the independence of the Republic of Macedonia. It is named after the newspaper “Makedonska Iskra”, the first Macedonian newspaper that began to be printed in Perth, Australia in 1946. It was first registered in the District Commercial Court in Skopje on 28.03.1995, and then followed all legal changes. However, its publishing activity “Macedonian Spark” began in 1997.
According to Shkokljev, world science has been dealing with the enigma of the “Greek historical miracle” for centuries and has not found adequate explanations for the origin of that phenomenon. On this issue, there are opposing views on the past, because the one who controls the past, ruthlessly strives to dictate the future. Since in Europe today we do not live in totalitarian times, an attempt will be made to explain that famous “Hellenic miracle” based on arguments from modern sciences, primarily linguistics and archaeology, with an epistemological approach.
Spatially, the term Greece usually refers to the territory from Olympus in the north to Tenara and Crete in the south. While, on the other hand, the ethnogenesis of the ancient Greeks is based on the composition of the participants in the Trojan War: Danaans, Achaeans and Argives mentioned by Homer in the “Iliad”, the Hellenists designate them as a single “Greek people” or “Hellenic people” and here they are wrong – because the Hellenes colonized the Peloponnese 80 years after the Trojan War.
A further enigma is the gods of Olympus. Herodotus points out that the poets Homer and Hesiod were the first to create stories among the Hellenes about the origin of the gods and the world, gave them names and explained the divine honors and skills and determined the areas in which they ruled. The stories were a gift from the Muses of Piraeus in Macedonia, the “eloquent daughters” of Mnemosyne (Memory). In addition to faith, the language of the ancient Greeks is also an enigma, as well as the origin of the alphabet and myth.
Otherwise, Academician Dr. Antonije Škokljev-Dončo, retired general, was born in the village of D’mbeni, Kostur in Aegean Macedonia now Greece. Dr. Škokljev received his education in Kostur, Sofia and Belgrade. In World War II, he participated in the liberation of Macedonia and Yugoslavia.
Dr. Škokljev graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade with a high average in the field of maxillofacial and oral surgery, and worked in Belgrade and other medical centers in Europe. He was a doctor of medical sciences and an (expert) member of the World Health Organization.
Academician Prof. Dr. Antonije Škokljev-Dončo, as a great world figure, lived a long but modest life, and at the age of 94, he died on May 1, 2018 in Belgrade, where his eternal home is located. However, his name and work will remain unforgettable in ethnic Macedonia and in Serbia
Writen by
DUSHAN RISTEVSKI-MAKEDON
